MDU B.Ed Merit List 2026: What Score Ranks Where, Group-I vs Group-II

MDU does not publish a B.Ed "cut-off". What it does publish is the full overall merit list for each programme — every applicant, their category and their merit score, in rank order. For 2026 the three B.Ed lists went up on 19 and 20 September. We counted every row: 1,845 applicants in Group-I, 4,476 in Group-II and 479 in Special Education — 6,800 in all. This guide turns those lists into score bands, shows the score at fixed positions, compares applicants with seats, and gives you a tool to see where a score would have sat. We print no names or rows; everything below is an aggregate.

Our counts from MDU's 2026 overall merit lists; seats from the prospectus (Appendix W, our sum).

Group-II is the crowded list: the bulk of its applicants sit between 55 and 75, and the 60–64.99 band alone holds 1,092 people. A single percentage point in that range moves you past a couple of hundred others. Group-I is smaller and scores higher — its median of 70.11 is well above Group-II's 65.79 — because science and mathematics graduates tend to carry higher aggregates. Special Education is small enough that a few candidates change the picture.

Here is the number that matters most, and it is rarely printed: MDU has more B.Ed seats than applicants. The 90 colleges in the prospectus carry 10,399 B.Ed seats, split half-and-half between the groups — roughly 5,200 each. Group-I drew 1,845 applicants and Group-II 4,476. Special Education drew 479 applicants for 660 seats. On arithmetic alone, almost every eligible applicant can get a seat somewhere. The contest is over which seat: the aided colleges, the ones near home, the girls-only colleges, and the All India Open seats if you are from outside Haryana.

Why did round 1 place only 1,286 of 1,845 Group-I applicants when seats outnumber them? Because a seat is allotted only in a college you listed. Applicants who named a handful of popular colleges were not placed when those filled. Round 2 and round 3 work down the same lists with the seats left, and group conversion opens in round 2. If you were not allotted in round 1, the fix is in your hands only as far as your submitted choices allow — choices could only be changed until the choice-locking deadline of 3 September.

The striking line is Group-II's 2,315 applicants from other states. Candidates from outside Haryana can only take All India Open Category seats, which are 15% of each college's intake. On our arithmetic that is about 1,560 seats across all 10,399, or roughly 780 per group — and Haryana applicants may take them too. So for an out-of-state Arts or Commerce graduate, the effective competition is far stiffer than "more seats than applicants" suggests. That is our reading of the published shares, not an official statement.